Chapter Four
Frustrated, T'Nalia sat in the cafeteria with Jimmy while he ate some Madi meat, rice, and cabbage, and he wasn't saying much of anything, but he was also somewhat standoffish. She watched him from across the room, and he had his face buried in his tray. She had received word that the university of Glassco had an apartment waiting for him that met his specifications, and she had a flat in the same building. She didn't want to spend any more time with him because he was annoying, talkative, noisy, and lovable, and it was that lovable part that was killing her. She was a professional, and she was hired to keep an eye on him not fall in love with him, and everyday she tried to remind herself of that. She had grown fond of the young man, and found him to be interesting. She was ashamed of how she became uncouth with Jimmy, and in some ways, she wondered if this was the reason the Lantern Corp denied her application the first two times until after she battled that giant monster. Trying to find her groove, she sat across the room, and thought about how she treated him over the last couple of weeks, and wanted to change her behavior towards him, but it was going to be hard. She knew that. He had a way about him that made her so mad that she couldn't breathe around him.
T'Rolo walked into the dining area wearing his white lab coat, and looking somewhat official. He didn't have that much hair on his head, and his thick mustache arched over his top lip. He had a wide nose, and wore thick, horn rimmed glasses. He had a clipboard under his right arm, and a small palm computer followed behind him. The majority of people on Doraxia had some type of mobile computer with them. He told her that T'Rauna would meet up with the ship in the second month of the journey with her team of scientist to take a look at Jimmy, and she was a very powerful person within the scientific community. Her brother Dunak died trying to put Jimmy's clothes back on him, and seven other technicians died with him. The fact that Jimmy wasn't properly quarantine when he first came on the ship was T'Rolo's fault, and T'Rauna had every right to strip him of his flight status. He was busy trying to put the blame on Dunak, and it was easy because a man who rejected the order of the "T" was considered reckless.
"Listen. Dunak was a hot head who got his comrades killed," T'Rolo said. He sat down beside the Lantern, and emphasis on the young man's mistakes. "Without orders from the bridge, he gave the command to go into the room."
"Okay, but I can't confirm any of this," she said with a grimace. "I was still on Oa when everything happened."
"Can you at least back me up?" He asked.
"It's your ship, T'Rolo. The crew is your responsibility," she said in a strong voice. "The deaths are on you." T'Nalia looked directly at Jimmy from across the room, and he had a look of disgust on his face. She knew he was disgusted with T'Rolo's inability to take responsibility, and she immediately cut him off. "Let's not discuss this in front of our guest," she said, "It's unbecoming."
Later that day, she had left Jimmy in his room while she inspected the hull of the huge ship, and the fact that T'Rolo wanted to skirt his responsibilities in the deaths bothered her. She looked closely at the hull of the ship to ensure space debris hadn't damaged it. It was a large ship, but a routine inspection was warranted halfway through long flights, and she inspected for stress fractures, space debris damage, and natural wear and tear. The palm computer could have checked the cracks without her, but she wanted to spend some time to herself, and away from the boy.
Jimmy had occupied her every waking moment for the last two weeks, and she wanted to be apart from him for awhile. He gave her goosebumps because she suspected him of using his supervision to see through her clothes, and the way he watched her made her nervous. He would observe her as she walked down the hallway, and she would see his reflection in the window to his hovel. The boy said he wouldn't use his supervision to invade her privacy, but she felt like he was infatuated with her. She knew he had needs like all boys, and if he could steal a look, he probably would. Her palm computer used a powerful laser to detect for cracks in the ship, and it found several small ones near the bridge. She used her power ring to mend them, and then the palm computer checked her work.
"Looks good, Lantern," the computer said, "Damn good."
She flew to the other side of the ship when she caught a shiny dot out her peripheral vision. She looked in the object's general direction, but didn't see anything at first. She wondered if she was getting some kind of space sickness, and hallucinating. She went back to inspecting the rear of the ship when the shiny object brushed across her face; it was a thick, Yellow Lantern ring that was nearly four times as big as her green one. She grabbed the ring with an emerald hand from her ring, and it was nothing like the rings in her pocket that she commandeered from the Yellow Lanterns. It was bigger and she felt the energy coming from it, and the swirly markings intrigued her. The energy emanating from the ring caused her nausea, and she threw up all over the place. She had to move to the other side of the ship so it wouldn't splash on her. The ring had Jimmy's name etched in it, and she read it several times to ensure she wasn't going crazy. "Oh. I feel so sick," she said. She retched several more times, and then she threw up once more. She immediately took the radioactive ring to her quarters, and locked it in a strong safe, but it beat against the door making an awful racket. She immediately left out of her room, and sat on her cot in front of Jimmy's hovel, but tried to keep quiet. She didn't want to draw Jimmy's attention away from his studies.; but at the same time, she wondered if the boy was the dreaded Destroyer, the monster that was foretold in ancient prophecies.
Some of the rings didn't have an assignment, and anybody could wield them. For example, the three Yellow Lantern rings weren't assigned by the Yellow Lantern Corp, and anybody who found them could wield them, but when it came to her ring, it was specifically assigned to her through DNA. The large, Yellow Lantern ring was meant for the person whose name was etched in it, and if anybody else touched it, they became sick, and if T'Nalia tried to put the ring on her finger, the radiation would probably kill her.
"That banging is annoying, T'Nalia," Jimmy said softly. He turned to look at her in his swivel chair, and watched her closely with his large, brown eyes. He grimaced at her. She caught his gaze for a split second, and went back to looking at the screen of her palm computer. He was given her his penetrating stare, and she hated his ogle. "It's like a constant banging in my head. T'Nalia?"
"I don't hear anything, Jimmy, " She said grimacing. Tinkering on her palm computer, she pretended like she was busy so Jimmy wouldn't figure out her ruse, but she knew he was smart and attentive to the world around him. She looked at him for a moment, and then back at her computer screen, and he was still gawking at her as if he was looking at her undergarments.
"You're up to something," he said with a look of seriousness. His countenance was very serious for a moment, and she could tell he was agitated because of the constant banging. "You're dripping with subterfuge."
"Quit being presumptuous," she said. She sucked on her teeth as if to dismiss his curiosity, and then told him about how much she hated his presumptions. "I hate when you just assume to know me, Jimmy. You don't know me. You don't know anything. You're just a child."
He walked over to the window, and peered out at T'Nalia. Pausing, for a moment, his breath fogged up the part of the window directly in front of him. He eventually said, "I know you more than you know. It's not my fault I hear your heart racing with each lie you tell."
"You can detect my lies? I mean…"
"Sneaking around, acting squirrely. You Lanterns and your secrets." He shook his head in disbelief. "I thought you were special, but then here we are."
"With all that drama, I guess I should stand and clap," she snapped. Standing to her feet, she straightened out her uniform, and she caught Jimmy looking at her crotch area. She quickly placed her hands over her crotch, and sat back down on her cot.
"Are you kidding me?" He asked with a scowl on his face. "I'm not looking at your dried up crotch."
"Jimmy! How rude!" She screeched.
"You're a liar. You're hiding something from me, and I can tell," he said, "You're cold and unfeeling."
"You make me so mad, Jimmy, " She said as she stormed down the hallway.
"Did you get your T in running away?" Jimmy asked. "You're just like all the other worthless Lanterns."
"Eat Madi shit," she screamed, "You're a horrible, bitter uncouth child, and you make me sick."
"At least I don't lie, and pretend to care. So, there's that. You walk around being all haughty when you're just an uncaring, unfeeling, bitch. "
Suddenly, she shot a green blast that went through the window, and hit Jimmy in the chest, and he flew backwards onto the floor.
"Oh god! I'm sorry, Jimmy," she said. "I didn't mean it."
"Just leave me alone," he said as he looked at his uniform to ensure she didn't rip it. "You just proved my point. You're still overreacting and resorting to pot shots when you don't get your way."
She backed away from Jimmy's hovel with a look of fear on her face, and tears rolled down her face. She ran down the hallway, and Jimmy didn't even look in her direction. She couldn't believe what she had done. It was an act of violence against her charge, and for the first time, she truly didn't believe she was worthy of the ring.
T'Nalia sat in her room, and tried to use the ship's computers to muffle the sound. Wiping the tears from her face, she had to make a call to the Lantern Corp concerning the ring. Her bed had an old, family quilt on it with the pictures of her grandparents. It was a precious relic in her family. The walls of her room were bare, and all she had was a computer that she used for study and communication. She opened a secure link between her and the Lantern Corp, and asked about the ring, but she did it as a hypothetical question. Her palm computer was making a sound that tried to drown out any super ears that might be listening to her conversation. She knew the ring was looking for Jimmy, but she didn't want the Lantern Corp knowing about the boy. At all cost, she felt that she needed to protect Jimmy's identity from the universe because he was beyond special. The fact that the Yellow Lantern ring, the ring of the Destroyer was looking for him caused her great distress. If Jimmy was this Yellow Lantern god, then that was a game changer. At some point, she'd have to stop him, and with the power of the Lantern Corp, kill him.
"A Lantern would be expected to eliminate the threat before it started," the Lantern Corp said, "If the ring found its target, it would change things as we know it. "
T'Nalia took the ring out of the safe, and took it to her ship that set on top of the science vessel. She locked it up on her ship for safe keeping, and Jimmy probably wouldn't be able to hear the banging with it up there. In any case, she wasn't going to try to kill Jimmy like the corp suggest for several reasons: he was too powerful and she cared about him even though she shot him. She had seen what he did to the two Lanterns, and he didn't break a sweat killing them, and there was the obvious reason of her love for the boy. After she put the ring in her ship, she meandered her way back to Jimmy's hovel, but she wasn't in the mood to deal with his nagging. She quietly sat back on her cot, and Jimmy was reading about Doraxian women.
"Why are you reading that?" T'Nalia asked softly.
"Just trying to figure out why you're crazy," he said, "Unfortunately, I haven't found anything."
She grimaced. "Can you just be quiet?" She straightened out her uniform, and looked straight ahead. She wanted to find a way to make the boy behave, so she said, "I'm going to ask to be reassigned. There's just no path forward for us."
Jimmy ran up to the window, and looked at her, and shrugged his shoulders. "It's for the best. We're like oil and water. Volatile! See. I'm the good guy and you're the bad guy, and it's best that you don't rub off on me."
"I'm bad? I saw what you did to those Lanterns," she said, "You're the bad person in this relationship."
"Just a couple of worthless Lanterns. They're a dime a dozen," he said.
"I'm not going to let you get under my skin again," she said, "It's going to be good for both of us to be apart."
Jimmy looked at her for a moment, and said, "Doesn't this boil down to the fact that you can't handle the uniform?"
"Don't go there, Jimmy!" She barked.
"Well, I'm perfectly fine with you being reassigned," He said, "You're a horrible person. You shot me and you lied to me."
"So, you don't care?" She asked.
He laughed. "I'm just not convinced you meant it," he said, "That's why I'm not worried."
"So, you really can tell when I'm not being truthful?" She asked.
"Yes," he said, "And that's why I'm not worried. If I thought you were going to be reassigned, I wouldn't like that at all."
She walked up to the glass, and looked directly at him. "Why do you treat me so badly?"
"I don't know," he said, "It hurts to care about you so much, but never being able to touch you." He sat back in his chair, and turned to his computer. "I think that's enough to make anybody act erratic." He looked back at her for a moment. "I don't like being lied to, T'Nalia, especially by you."
"Okay, Jimmy. No more lies," she said.
She sat back on her cot, and laid down for a while, and thought about what Jimmy had said. He was like a flame to a moth, and the way she felt, she was that moth mesmerized by his deadly flame. Every day, she seemed to be headed closer and closer to his flame, and she couldn't help herself. She fantasized about him every time she closed her eyes, and she felt ashamed for it. Nature wasn't going to ever let that happen because the outcome would be Jimmy holding her dead body. She knew that, but the thought of it turned on all her lights. It was a crazy time for her because even their harmless spats made him even more attractive, and no matter what, she couldn't resist him.
It was odd because she realized that her and the boy had a real lovers quarrel, and he said things that hurt her to her core. If she didn't care about him, his words wouldn't have cut her so deep, because she wondered every day if she was right for the Lantern Corp. She had the skills and the athleticism to be a Lantern, but she didn't agree with the enslaving worlds, and that was what bothered her the most. The reason Jimmy made her feel so uneasy was because he noticed everything, and he seemed to know the mettle of a Lantern more than she did.
"T'Nalia, I'm going to be truthful," Jimmy said softly. He walked up to the window. "I don't care for Lanterns."
"Duly noted," she said.
"I don't think the Lantern Corp is worthy of you," he said, "They try oppressing fear, and that's a mistake." He looked at her for a moment. "It's best to face your fears, and overcome them."
"It's wrong for a Lantern to show any fear," she said.
"It's wrong for a Lantern not to face her fears, and work through them," he said, "That's how you become the best."
"Are you a Lantern?" She asked.
"Can I tell you about a dream I had?" He asked.
"About what?" She said.
"I had a dream that I became the powerfulest Lantern in the universe," he said, "We united the Sapphire Corp, The Sinestro Corp, The Green Lantern Corp, and The Black Lantern Corp." He laughed. "We were married, and had three kids in the dream."
She laughed, but it was a guarded laugh. "What color was your ring?" She asked. "Pink?"
He smiled for a moment. "You're making fun of me," he said.
"Married with three kids?" She asked. "That seems wild to me."
"Well, I had a fat, yellow ring that had so much energy that I saved dying worlds with it," he said, "We were a team."
Unfortunately, she knew nothing could become of her feelings for Jimmy because he'd always be untouchable. He was contrary to life, but his dream made her nervous. His existence put all life in danger of extinction, and to love him was tantamount to loving the plague. She remembered him saying that he only cried when nobody was around because his tears were deadly to life everywhere. If he sat nude in the middle of a green field, he would turn it into a wasteland, and that was a scary thought. She sat up on her cot, and peered in at Jimmy, and he was looking at a news story on her, and how she defeated the monster.
"Okay. Okay," Jimmy said, "You have my respect." He walked over to the glass, and said, "You took out that big 'ole thing without a power ring, superpowers, or anything." He was grinning from ear to ear. "Just your brain."
"What made you look me up?" She asked sheepishly. "I never mentioned that."
"Just want to learn more about you," he said. He leaned on the glass, and said, "I had that dream about being the Yellow Lantern three years ago, and in my dream, my wife's name was Nalia. She was you," he said, "So, please understand that I went three years thinking I was going crazy."
"Are you telling me the truth?" She asked.
"The ring has my name on it," he said. "It has swirls, and it's much bigger than a normal power ring."
She paused for a moment. "Are you playing games with me?"
"No," he said, "It's like I already know you," he said, "It's how I know things because I've lived our life already."
"What's my favorite color?" She asked.
"Violet," he said, "You have a violet dress that goes all the way down to the floor that you love." He smiled at her. "You love to have your feet rubbed with oils," he said.
"Stop, Jimmy,' she said with a furrowed brow. She was deeply disturbed by what he was saying. "I don't know how you know these things."
"Well, I guess I won't get into your favorite foods then. Madi meat! Your ship is full of it." He laughed. "Again, don't lie to me, T'Nalia. I dealt with your relationship with T'Dank before you had a relationship with T'Dank."
She sat down on her cot, and put her head between her legs. "How are you doing this, Jimmy?"
"This isn't easy for me," he said softly. "You're literally the girl of my dreams."
The next day…
T'Nalia sat on her ship when she received an urgent message from the Lantern Corp, and it was gruesome. It wasn't a personal message, but a status update on the war on Earth, and the Kryptonians had already taken a country called the United States, and killed over one hundred million people in the process. The Lantern Corp had over two thousand Lanterns killed, and the Kryptonians had a loss of eighty-five. When the Kryptonians captured a Lantern, they'd decapitate them, and display their heads to instill fear in the other Lanterns. The Lantern Corp called Earth New Krypton, and they were trying to find away to negotiate with the Kryptonians after the Justice Corp gave a report on the cause of the war. In the report, Doctor Hawkins stated that they tried to destroy a weapon of mass destruction with black Kryptonite, and it caused a tear in the universe that allowed for the Kryptonians to cross over into their universe. After he wrote the report, he died of a heart attack when he used all of his powers to kill a Kryptonian. The amount of power it took to do that killed his already weakened heart, and he died. The Lantern Corp became irate with the Justice Corp over that report, and were now in talks to back out of the war. Within a few days, they had expected to declare a ceasefire, and pull all Lanterns off the planet.
The report didn't resonate with T'Nalia, but she was dismayed by all the Lanterns killed. She didn't know anything about New Krypton, but it must have been some kind of horrid place to live. She didn't know what kind of miscreants would dispose of a weapon of mass destruction with black Kryptonite, and then that action resulted in the destruction of their world. There wasn't anything that needed black Kryptonite, one of the powerfulest elements in the universe. If some kind of weapon of mass destruction needed black Kryptonite to make it inert, then it must have been a bomb that could destroy an entire world. And with what she learned about the Kryptonians, they'd rule over any world if given half the chance, at least according to the Guardian's scrolls.
The Lantern Corp will want flesh for the death of Lanterns, soaked in youthfulness, strong and fair, and ready to be processed on the Lantern's slave world. It was how it all worked. Even in the Lantern Corp's losses, they'd find a way to recoup their money. New Krypton would quickly erase Earth's history, and eventually everything about the humans would be fairytales and fantasies. T'Nalia felt badly about a planet she didn't know; but at the same time, she thought about her world, about Doraxia, and the possibility that Kryptonians could wipe out her race. They would thrive under two, strong yellow suns; it would be like heaven to the Kryptonian physiology. But she digressed. The door shut and the lights turned out on humanity, and they'd have to learn how to navigate through the darkness.
T'Nalia sat back in her captain's chair, and pulled out the Yellow Lantern ring, and thought about Jimmy for a second. The power of the ring engulfed her body, and she immediately placed it back in the safe because its power scared her. For a second, she felt that she overstepped her authority by keeping the ring from Jimmy, but she was a Green Lantern, and in every imaginable way, the Yellow Lanterns were her mortal enemy. But she paused for a moment, and for some reason, she couldn't believe the young man could ever be her enemy. He seemed so gentle, like an innocent child, and she knew with all his powers, the ring could change him. He wasn't a normal being. She knew that. He was a god in his own right.
The ship came to a halt, and she immediately ascended back down to the main ship, and headed for the bridge. It was odd for the ship to fall out of warp, and she didn't recall T'Rolo saying anything about a stop. When she entered the bridge, T'Rolo watched the viewing screen with wide eyes. She looked at the viewer, and saw a large entity that sent a shock through her system, and it was heading for the ship. She hadn't ever seen a beast as large as the monster moving rapidly towards the science vessel, and it wasn't enough time for the ship to circumvent the creature. It was bigger than her planet of Doraxia, and she didn't know what to do. It looked like an entity like Parallax, but she hadn't ever seen the monster up close, but heard about it from some old ship captains during her pilot training. She exited the ship through a panel in the floor, and met up with the monster as it stretched across space. Her ring protected her from the harshness of space, but when it came to the monster, she had to be careful not to be pulled into its gravitational pull. As it moved towards her location, she could see the monster's gravitational-pull grabbing asteroids, and they were absorbed into its body. At this point, she was sure it was a parallax, and they devoured everything in their path. It was a disgusting creature that fed on a planet's energy, and from what she could tell, this one was starving.
She shot a green shield out of her ring, and tried her best to slow down the creature, but it was too strong. The shield was more than twenty thousand miles across and twenty thousand miles high, but it was barely a bump in the road to the monster; It broke through the shield, and a feeling of dread overcame her. She could feel the beast's gravitational-pull, and she used all her power to escape it. Unfortunately, she couldn't muster enough thrust to escape the monster's gravitation field. The science vessel moved backwards, and it appeared that the ship was going to leave her. She realized that it was better for them to escape, and if she died fighting the monster, then she died for something good.
"Lantern, you're weak," the monster said with a grimace on its face. It was throwing rocks through space, and they bounced off the ship. "I've eaten your kind for a millennium."
"Let's see what you got," she said with a grimace on her face. She looked at the monster with a straight face, and she found her second wind. Deep down, she knew defeating the beast was an impossible feat, but she wasn't going down without a fight. She shot him with a laser strike that caused the monster to bounce back, but before she had a chance to regroup, she found herself in the animal's gravitational-pull. She tried to use as much thrust as she had, but she found herself flying toward the goliath's mouth, and she realized she was done. Her arms flailed wildly, and she tried her best to escape, but with every second, she was twirling faster and faster towards the beast. "Jimmy, help me," she screamed. She yelled as loud as she could, but she knew he probably didn't hear her because the ship was so far away. It had moved so far away from her that it looked like a dot. "Jimmy, I'm going to die."
Jimmy flew out of the ship at near light speed, and right up to the monster. He pointed at the monster's chest, and a ray shot out of his finger, and it caused the monster to release T'Nalia. He looked the beast in his eyes, and said, "You're trying to kill the one person I care about in this universe."
"What are you going to do about it?" The Monster asked. He laughed at the boy, and said, "You act like you have the power to stop me."
JImmy looked back at T'Nalia, and told her to go the ship. "You should leave," he said, "It's going to get ugly."
"I'm not going," she said, "We're in this as a team."
Jimmy frowned, and then turned towards the monster. "Women. You can't live with them."
"Is that it?" T'Nalia asked.
"Pretty much," Jimmy said.
"You're a horrible person, JImmy," she said.
"You two need a room?" The monster asked.
"Eventually," Jimmy said with a smile. "But first, you're going to have to let us pass."
"Why should I?" The monster asked. He moved closer to the boy as if he wanted to sneak up on him.
"I don't want to kill you," Jimmy said. He moved a tad closer to the monster. "Just let us and our ship move past you without any problems."
The monster laughed for what seemed like a long time. He kept laughing and laughing, and rocks were flying out his mouth as he laughed. Jimmy looked back at T'Nalia for a second and shrugged his shoulders. Turning back to the monster, he started fake laughing really hard, and slapping his right knee. T'Nalia was completely baffled by the act, and didn't quite understand what he was doing.
"You mocking me?" The monster asked.
"Well. Yes," Jimmy said with an enthusiastic voice.
"I'm going to love eating you," he said with a mischievous look on his face.
"Feet first or head first?" Jimmy asked.
"Jimmy?" T'Nalia asked. "What are you doing?"
"Open wide," Jimmy said as he flew feet first towards the monster. The beast opened its mouth to receive him, and Jimmy was screaming, "Weeeeeeeeeeeeee" as he twirled towards the monster's mouth.
"What the fuck are you doing, JImmy?" T'Nalia asked.
"Quit cursing," he said as he went into the monster's mouth. "It's unbecoming."
T'Nalia was in a state of shock, and she started screaming for the boy. Tears were rolling down her face as she watched him go into the monster's mouth, and she thought he was committing suicide. It was the worse thing she had ever seen in her life, and she was heart broken. "Let him go," she screamed at the monster. She shot a fury of laser strikes at the beast, and she punched a hole in its chest. She didn't know what was going on until she realize the monster was dead. When she approached the monster's mouth, Jimmy was laying down looking up at the roof of the dead monster's mouth. He put his mask back on his face, and T'Nalia stepped inside with him.
"This creature is sooooo old," Jimmy said. He was counting the rings starting at the back of the beast's mouth. "He's probably five hundred thousand years old."
"How do you know that?" She asked.
"It's the rings. Every ring is one hundred thousand years," he said, "And a Parallax this size has probably devoured a thousand worlds."
"I thought you had died, dummy," she said, "Can you tell me your plans the next time?"
"Next time? Are you asking me on a date, T'Nalia?" Jimmy asked.
She gave him some kind of look, and then took off for the ship. "Hurry up." When she arrived at the ship, Jimmy was already there. "Quit showing off."
"Sorry," he said, "You should be nice to me."
"Why? Because you saved my life?" She asked.
"No. Because I think the world of you," he snapped. He stormed down the hallway to his hovel, and T'Nalia watched him until he was out of sight. She felt frustrated for some reason, but Jimmy wasn't keeping score. She was.
When she stepped on to the bridge, T'Rolo walked over to her, and said, "The boy is the strongest being I've ever seen in my life."
"He is strong," she said.
"By killing the parallax, he's created a planet in the middle of nowhere," he said, "This is incredible. We're going to stay here a bit, and analyze it."
T'Nalia was somewhat upset that the ship wasn't moving toward Doraxia, and she was tired because she hadn't been sleeping well since she was the only person guarding Jimmy. She had told T'Rolo several times that he was trustworthy, but he didn't think it would be good protocol for him to roam the ship without an escort. It was SOP, and T'Rolo was a stickler for the rules. She told Jimmy that she needed some time to clean up because she hadn't bathe in a few days, and he said, "I thought I smelled something." She stormed off down the hallway, and now she wondered if she was stinking, but she realized it was Jimmy playing his childish games. He had a way about him that she didn't quite understand. He was playful at all the wrong times, but at the same time, she realized that she was trying to be an ambassador for her world, and probably was more serious than he was use to.
She waved her ring hand over the front of her body, and her clothes disappeared off her body. Walking into her shower, she turned on the water, and then thought she heard her quarter's door open. "Who's out there?" She asked with a suspicious look on her face. While the water was running, she slid open the glass door of the shower, and peered out into her room, and scanned the room until her eyes focused in on Jimmy standing in the corner. She gasped. "You shouldn't be here," she said in a soft voice. She stepped out of the shower, and she was completely nude. "Is this what you've wanted to see?" Surprisingly, he stood in front of her like he was scared, and then he tried to walk off, but she said, "Wait?" He stopped at the door, and then slowly turned toward her.
"All I do is think about you," he said.
"It's okay, Jimmy," she said, "I know." He pointed his right index finger at her, and a white beam easily moved across the floor. It scurried its way over to T'Nalia, and wrapped around her waist. He picked her up with his superhuman powers, and gently placed her on the bed. "Are you going to hurt me?"
"Not at all," he said with a smile. He stood in the corner of the room. He estimated her bed to be about fifteen feet away; and when the lasso moved between her legs, she moaned in such away that it aroused Jimmy. T'Nalia saw his bulge, and desired to pleasure him, but she had to be careful about it. A hand came out of her beam the exact size of her hand, and massaged Jimmy through his pants. They rubbed each other with their respective superpowers for approximately twenty minutes, and climaxed at the same time. It was the first time that he had climaxed, and he didn't know what to make of it. It felt so weird and exciting to him that he fell to his knees in beautiful agony.
"Are you okay?" T'Nalia asked.
He slowly stood to his feet, and said, "I think we made love."
She laughed. "I think so," she said, "Our secret."
The next morning:
When she woke up on her cot, she noticed Jimmy-through the window of his hovel-trying to remove the dried semen from his suit. His semen was caustic, and it caused a huge hole in the front of the crotch of his uniform, and this was very bad. It meant that he wouldn't be able to leave his hovel because without that area covered, he would be deadly to all the people onboard the ship. He looked worried, and he frantically try to remove the semen from his pants, but it was too late. The damage had been done.
"Jimmy!" She exclaimed.
"It ate through my clothes," he said frantically. "This is horrible."
"Jimmy!" She repeated.
"What, T'Nalia?" He asked. He pulled off his pants, and held them up for her to see.
"It's going to be okay," she said. "Tear me off a piece of the cloth."
He ripped off a piece of the undergarment, and passed it to her through a slot in the wall. He pushed the torn garment through the slot, and then when he backed away from it, she grabbed it with her ring.
"This is my fault," T'Nalia said.
"I'm not going to confirm that," he said when he walked to the other side of the room. "Don't make last night a bad thing, T'Nalia. Just don't ruin that one moment for me."
T'Nalia smiled at him for a moment, and said, "I'll analyze this, and we can make you another uniform."